Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYMusic is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThe unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYYou don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThere’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYWhen I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYThe challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYIn whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYI was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEYGood ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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